Kinda late, but thanks to a reddit post I recently saw a presentation of the cards by lead designer Gavin Verhey
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGAAk-IgJdohttps://www.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/13xmlt9/magic_the_gathering_doctor_who_color_pie_identity/
Now, full disclosure I never touched a MTG card and I probably never will but, along with the great artworks, it teased a few elements that got my fan brain thinking (making a list? how could i resist). From what I understand, all of it shall be answered on the 28th of July.
So, there will be 4 decks of cards, with all the doctors playable as the lead with a companion acting as co-leader if the player wants
* Blast from the Past (Green-White-Blue colours) focusing on the 1st to 8th doctors
* Timey-Wimey (Blue-Red-White) on 9th to 11th
* Paradox (Green-Blue-Red) on 12th and 13th
* Masters of Evil (Blue-Black-Red) on the villains, with Davros as the only lead card but the cover also shows missy, a nightmare in silver cyberman and a bronze dalek
* pieces of content from the upcoming doctors are confirmed but to be announced (gatwa's "14th" was mentionned last year btw
www.dicebreaker.com/games/magic-the-gathering-game/news/magic-the-gathering-doctor-who-set-2023)From what I understand the colour of a card basically represents their alignement as so
* Organization (white): Peace, law, structure, selflessness, equality
* Curiosity (blue): Knowledge, deceit, caution, deliberation, perfection
* Self-concern (black): Power, self-interest, death, sacrifice, uninhibitedness
* Emotion (red): Freedom, emotion, action, impulse, destruction
* Instinct (green): Nature, wildlife, connection, spirituality, tradition
Some seems to have fun guessing what would be the alignement of each doctors/companions (each doctor will have 2 colours of their deck and each companion will get 1) but that's really my thing but what we know is
* Four is blue green
* Sarah is white
* Ten is blue red
* Rose is white
* Thirteen is blue green
* Yaz is red
What got me more interested is that it will contain 10 location cards of the show with only the art to help us find what is what. Five were already shown in the post above. (if you want to try it yourself, here are the correct answers)
{correct answers}
* plains -> androzani
* island -> marinus
* swamp -> planet of evil
* mountain -> peladon
* forest -> meglos (I never would have guessed that one tbh)
And each deck will contain 10 other location cards with special mechanics. Only the Library planet from series 4 has been confirmed for now.
{my locations' predictions}
1st-8th deck
* celestial toyroom
* web planet
* land of fiction
* metebelis 3
* shada
* nimon
* rassilon's death zone
* varos
* psychic circus
* karn
9th-11th deck
* van statten vault
* new earth
* impossible planet
* utopia
* midnight
* space whale
* akhaten
* center of the tardis
* trenzalore
* the library (confirmed)
12th and 13th
* orient express in space
* the barn
* singing towers
* villengard
* kerblam
* disintegrator of the soul (the av kolos one)
* orphan 55
* time
* the division
* the matrix (with fugitive's altered records)
villains deck
* skaro
* mechanus
* kembel
* mondas
* telos
* war games
* anti-matter universe
* mars
* byzantium
* asylum
the 5 remaining artwork only locations
* plains: eye of orion
* island: the purple ocean from mindwarp
* swamp: kroll
* mountain: terserus
* forest: spiridon
The other funny thing is that each of the 13 doctors, plus war and fugitive, and 4 villains will get a card about one of their episodes. The only confirmed one is The Parting of the Ways for Nine.
{my stories' predictions}
I'm assuming only on-screen adventures
* fug: once upon time
* 1st: space museum
* 2nd: enemy of the world
* 3rd: carnival of monsters
* 4th: the seeds of doom
* 5th: enlightenment
* 6th: trial of a time lord
* 7th: curse of fenric
* 8th: night of the doctor (the tv movie rights are such a mess, plus a card called "the tv movie" sounds really awkward)
* war: day of the doctor (not much of a choice)
* 9th: parting of the ways (confirmed)
* 10th: human nature
* 11th: pandorica opens
* 12th: heaven sent
* 13th: can you hear me
* villain1: genesis of the daleks
* villain2: time meddler
* villain3: deadly assassin
* villain4: blink
If any of you wants to make some predictions, I would like to see it.